If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
MARGARET ATWOODThe best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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